This debut cookbook presents dishes from the Caribbean and its diaspora, and explores the connections which food fosters between different times and places, and between friends, families and strangers.

80 recipes include crispy saltfish fritters, rich and tempting aubergine curry, slow cooked jerk pork, zingy lime and ginger cheesecake and sweet Guinness punch - layering different notes and spices carefully to create delicate, rewarding flavours, and confounding misconceptions and stereotypes about Caribbean food. A tribute to this most resourceful, resilient and joyous of cuisines.